When team building, you have to keep in mind that the only kind of orb changers you can bring are heart breakers (if you want full activation) and you will require careful planning and orb management to ensure you can trigger a row and 4+ colours.

Outside of a leadership role, Librarian Kali is a fantastic sub on rainbow teams and is capable of covering what is normally two awkward colours for light based teams. Unfortunately, she does not cover the awkward fire element for Ra Dragon  and would require you to have a least one Dark Kali  present. Lastly, you are able to utilise her for Skill Inheritance as everyone loves a Dark Kali style board refresh.

Overall, book-loving Kali is a fantastic, albeit rare roll from the Pad Academy REM. She is equally potent as a lead, sub, or assistant through Skill Inheritance.

Comparing the musically-inclined Sakuya to her Awoken sister , it becomes apparent that the Awoken form is superior. Not only is the Pad Academy Sakuya susceptible to binds, you do not have the bind clearing component of the active. Granted you do have double TPA , but you cannot deal damage if you are bound. Thus, you will need to carefully plan around dungeons with binds.

Branching away from a leadership role, Music Club Sakuya does provide utility for mono water teams via her gravity. Gravity can be used to help bypass resolve mechanics or push bosses into more favourable health thresholds. Situational usage, but something worth considering.

Overall, Music Club Sakuya is an okay card from the Pad Academy REM provided you do not own her Awoken form. She may be more of a collectors item or for those who have a love for all things Sakuya. Lastly, what should her music band be named? Chinese Five Spice? Rice Girls? You decide.

 

If used as a lead, Schoolgirl Athena is capable of forming a modest 2.25x HP / 9x ATK / 2.25x RCV team. Even with unbindable leaders, a 9x damage team may struggle unless you prioritise row enhances and could play like a pseudo Sylvie  Freyja  team. Unfortunately, you must use an active skill to trigger the RCV component which is counter intuitive for tank/grind style teams. However, if you feel you can work around this problem, you are able to deal reasonably high damage when stacking orb change actives and enhances. And speaking of enhances, you will most likely not need dual Athena actives and she makes a great candidate as a base for Skill Inheritance. With only a 5 turn cooldown, you can safely inherit an active of your choice to help combat the various dungeon mechanics.

When using glasses or non-glasses Athena as a sub, you are able to capitalise on her bind immunity as a base for bind clearing via skill inheritance. Compared to other bind clearing options or bind immune cards, Athena has amazing offensive awakenings and nearly 900 weighted stats. This will help alleviate some of the reduced damage that comes with a bind clearer and allows Athena to be used on virtually every mono wood team.

Overall, Sincere Class Monitor Athena is a phenomenal card to own. Her incredible offensive potential combined with her bind immunity allows her to be used on nearly every wood team.

President Lucifer is capable of forming a 4x to all stat tank team which is nearly un-killable as you will most likely have around 100k HP and amazing base recovery. Granted it will be a very slow process, but you can bring gravities and various orb changers and enhancers to hasten the process. Unfortunately, Lucifer can be bound which is his main weakness as you will lose all your durability and most likely die on the next turn unless you can quickly clear the binds. What will most likely limit you from using President Lucifer as a lead will be a combination of finding friends and the patience required to use as dungeons will be very slow to clear.

Outside of a leadership role, Lucifer will be an alright sub that desperately needs to inherit an active to have more viability. This is because he shares the same active as the REM version and has the potential to override light orbs. To make matter worse, most light teams are row  based and President Lucifer will be providing very little benefit through his awakenings.

Overall, Student Council President Lucifer is a lacklustre roll from the PAD Academy REM. He could have had more potential if he had received an ultimate evolution like Athena did, but most likely the only leader role this president will play is a cheer leader from your monster box role. At least he has dreamy hair.

Scholarship Isis forms a modest 2.25x HP / 36x ATK (1.69x HP / 27.04x ATK / 1.69x RCV in other form) rainbow team when utilizing healer or attacker subs. 36x damage for a rainbow team is okay, but the HP multiplier along with naturally high recovery of healers should help compensate and form a durable team. Sadly, you will probably not see many players leading with her outside of early-mid game accounts as you will gain access to stronger leads later on. However, her main purpose is to act as a bind immune, bind clearer for both rainbow and mono water teams. Unfortunately, the lack of god typing makes her less ideal than Awoken Isis  and covering dark is less needed for rainbow teams than wood.

Despite all these negative drawbacks, intellectually-inclined Isis makes a great candidate as a base for skill inheritance. With only a 3 turn cooldown, you are able to easily inherit an active to counter various dungeon mechanics while retaining the option of bind removal.

Overall, school-savvy Isis is a reasonable roll from the PAD Academy REM. She will be a fantastic early game roll and can transition into a wonderful base for Skill Inheritance late game.

It is disappointing that Sasuke cannot abuse their unique orb changer as their awakenings are reasonably powerful for a 5-star Collab roll. However, you can utilise their wood typing on Skuld  teams and attacker component for You Yu .

Overall, Sasuke is a lackluster roll from the Pad Academy REM and someone should deliver the news to GungHo that Sasuke needs an update.

Looking at Theurgia’s active, it can be used as a quick damage source as well as helping correct other orb changer actives to hit a specific number of fire orbs for an additional row or TPA match. The main drawback is no enhanced skyfall component to better take advantage of the enhanced fire orbs.However, with only a 4 turn cooldown, you can use them as a base for a more synergistic active as a means to take advantage of their numerous fire orb enhances.

Overall, Theurgia is a strong roll from the PAD Academy REM, but their main downsides are a lack of top tier fire teams and not being a pretty girl.